Borderlands 3 preview – Gearbox has something to prove

Borderlands 3 is fucking ridiculous. It’s ridiculous in scale, its characters are ridiculous, everything they say is ridiculous, the guns are ridiculous, and there’s even a friendly bandit who runs around in his boxer shorts, complete with simulated cock jiggle physics. Ridiculous! This is a first-person shooter that lets you use a shotgun that’s also a sniper rifle. There are guns that fire other guns that sprout legs and murder everything like those terrifying dog robots in that one good Black Mirror episode. Some guns fire out brains. Brains! There are grenades that create a vortex, sucking in gas mask-wearing bandits before spitting them back out as bloody chunks. Like I say, it’s extremely far-fetched. The new bad guys are a pair of twin influencers, for god’s sake. These famous, egomaniac streamers leech power from their followers and turn their viewers into lifeless husks. Ridic… Oh wait, that’s actually spot on. “So, it’s funny, as we have a gajillion influencers at all these things,” multiplayer producer Chris Burke says as he gestures at the preview event happening around us. “We love streamers. I think there’s this parody of a streamer, that you can imagine, who’s like an egotistical… the idea… Read full this story